When she finally worked up the nerve to ask him for a tryout, he agreed to coach her privately for ten minutes each morning. Still she was cut in her freshman year. She finally earned a position on the roster at Burt High School in Clarksville, Mississippi, because the coach wanted her older sister to play.
Her father agreed to allow her sister to join the team only if Wilma was allowed to join, too. Rudolph soon blossomed into a fine basketball player. As a sophomore she scored points in twenty-five games, a new state record for a player on a girls' basketball team. She also started running in track meets and found that her greatest strengths lay in the sprint.
She was only fourteen when she attracted the attention of Ed Temple, the women's track coach at Tennessee State University. Temple told her she had the potential to become a great runner, and during the summer breaks from high school she trained with him and the students at Tennessee State.
Wilma Rudolph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. She was a teenager before she even learned what the Olympics were. Rudolph caught on fast, though.
In four seasons of high school track meets, she never lost a race. At the tender age of sixteen, she qualified for the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and came home with a bronze medal. Rudolph entered Tennessee State University in the fall of , with the intention of majoring in elementary education. All of her spare time was consumed by running, however. The pace took its toll, and she found herself too ill to run through most of the season. She rebounded in , only to pull a muscle at a crucial meet between the United States and the Soviet Union, the former country made up of Russia and several smaller nations.
Ed Temple, who would prove to be a lifelong friend, supervised her recovery, and by Rudolph was ready to go to Rome, Italy. At the Olympics, Rudolph won all three of her gold medals in very dramatic fashion. In both the meter dash and the meter dash, she finished at least three yards in front of her closest competitor. She tied the world record in the meter and set a new Olympic record in the Rudolph also brought her meter relay team from behind to win the gold.
The French called her "La Gazelle. Wilma Rudolph became an instant celebrity in Europe and America. Crowds gathered wherever she was scheduled to run. Kennedy — , and a dizzying round of dinners, awards, and television appearances. Rudolph made one decision that she stuck to firmly: she refused to participate in the Olympic games. She felt that she might not be able to duplicate her achievement of , and she did not want to appear to be fading.
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So her parade and banquet were the first integrated events in Clarksville, Tennessee. Wilma had a few nicknames: Her high school basketball coach called her Skeeter, like a mosquito.
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